Description
West Façade, Left Portal: Tympanum - General View
The tympanum of the left door shows the Ascension or the Second Coming. Christ (crossed halo) stands on a cloud, supported by two angels. Below are four angels (descending from the clouds?) Some of them have their mouths open (singing?). On the lintel below are ten seated men holding books or scrolls and looking upward (apostles? Old Testament prophets?). On the archivolts are the Signs of the Zodiac and the Labors of the Months. See Fassler, pp 507-10.
Subject
Cathédrale de Chartres--Pictorial works.;Church decoration and ornament--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.;Church architecture--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.;Christian art and symbolism--France--Chartres--Medieval, 500-1500--Pictorial works.
